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Conor McGregor is no more of a mystic than Miss Cleo or any of the members of Diane Warwick’s Psychic Friends Network. One of the main narratives heading into the Irish superstars big-money showdown with Floyd Mayweather Jr. next weekend in Las Vegas has been McGregor’s track record of speaking things into existence, and while […]

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Fall Down 7 Times, Get Up 8: A Young Man’s Voice from the Silence of Autism by Naoki Higashida Translated by KA Yoshida and David Mitchell Knopf Canada 240 pages | 29.95 Fall Down 7 Times, Get Up 8 is the follow-up to Naoki Higashida’s surprise bestseller, The Reason I Jump, a book he wrote […]

Happy birthday to us! Gather up your friends and family and celebrate at one of the many events and happenings going on around Metro Vancouver and beyond. Festivals, concerts, outdoor fun, stage performances, parades, fireworks and more — there’s something for everyone. CANADA DAY EVENTS Canada Day at Canada Place This year’s celebration will be […]

Hong Kong Airlines landed its inaugural flight into North America in Vancouver on Friday with action movie star Jackie Chan on hand to help boost the airline’s profile. The airline, which will stage daily flights between Vancouver and Hong Kong, has enlisted Chan as its brand ambassador, although he didn’t speak to media or fans […]

Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay HarperCollins 320 pages | 31.99 Roxane Gay is one of the most important feminists and thinkers on the scene today. She is the author of some lauded bestsellers: essay collection Bad Feminist, short story collection Difficult Women and now Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body, her first memoir. […]

The very funny Amy Schumer will be stopping at Rogers Arena on Dec. 2 as part of her upcoming world tour. The star of TV’s Inside Amy Schumer and the Hollywood hit Trainwreck announced the tour Thursday night during a sold-out performance at New York’s Madison Square Garden. Tickets, which will priced between at $39 and […]

Vancouver’s Mackenzie Davis’s great month just got even better. The 29-year-old actress, who earlier this month signed on to be part of the upcoming Blade Runner sequel with Harrison Ford and Ryan Gosling, has now joined the cast of director Jason Reitman’s Tully, a comedy starring Charlize Theron that will be shot in Vancouver this summer. Theron, who […]

After eight decades or so it’s no surprise that the Vancouver Public Library has some interesting stuff stored away in its vast warren of compact shelving. In a bid to educate and entertain the public, the library is hosting the Weird and Wacky Central Library Tour (June 25, July 9, 24 and Aug. 13, 11 […]

IGGY POP: Post Pop Depression (Universal) Too many will credit Queens of The Stone Age’s Josh Homme with this nine-track recording’s unqualified success. QOTSA’s main writer certainly approaches Pop’s music with the most sympathetic ear that a backing band has had for it since the Berlin-era masterpieces of The Idiot and Lust For Life. The Dead Weather’s Dean Fertitia and Arctic Monkey’s monster basher Matt Helders are critical to the tunes which also recall highlights from the underrated Party as well. From the opening moody drone of Break Into Your Heart to the razor-sharp protopunk of Gardenia and the deliberately China Girl-referencing chimes introducing American Valhalla, it’s obvious that Pop has things to say and still delivers his messages with signature detachment and a world-weary snarl. “This street is as cold as a corporate lawsuit,” in Sunday is just one example of how considerable experience of the artistic underbelly and a survivor’s vantage point enable the crafting deeply resonating observations that never recycle the past. On the obviously titled German Days, Pop looks back on his and Bowie’s time in the country together and by the end of the track, it’s not hard to wonder which of the two legends was leading who during the era which saw both produce some of their most enduring works. By the time the gospel work-chant introduction of the final track Paraguay arrives, it’s hard not to see Post Pop Depression as a personal best in Iggy’s recorded legacy. Who says you can’t make a rock masterpiece at 68?

“They are simply timeless in the stories they tell,” says Bill Buckhurst, who is directing a contemporary version of Twelfth Night at the Globe. “One of the key messages for me in this play is … it’s not who you are on the outside that matters, it’s who you are on the inside. And that’s an extraordinary (message).”

It was a tough week on Canadian TV and film locations, as two actors were seriously injured in separate accidents in B.C. and Ontario. U.S. actor Dylan O’Brien was in hospital in Vancouver after being injured Thursday on the Cache Creek set of a sequel in the Maze Runner franchise, studio 20th Century Fox said in a statement.

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